Japan stops humpback whale hunt

The US and Australian diplomatic (and public) pressure was effective. The entire hunt made no sense because the Japanese, especially the younger Japanese, simply aren't interested in this battle. They hardly eat whale any more and have come to view the whale hunts as a bad thing. It was just a small group who led this hunt to promote their own strange brand of nationalism.

Now if we could get Norway to catch up, we'd be in pretty good shape.